A subject's faults a subject may proclaim,
A monarch's errors are forbidden game. [ William Cowper ]

Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? [ Ovid ]

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit. [ Cudworth ]

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers. [ Bailey ]

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. [ Ovid ]

That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe. [ Milton ]

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Wine, though it possesses good qualities, was forbidden by the prophet, because it attacked reason. [ Hais-Bais ]

How many people would be mute if they were forbidden to speak well of themselves, and evil of others! [ Mme. de Fontaines ]

Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking. [ Fuller ]

Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. [ South ]

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]